Vassiliki Sinopoulou
Senior Research Assistant, UCLan Cochrane Gut Group
School of Medicine
Vassiliki's main expertise is as a researcher in Cochrane systematic reviews for conditions and diseases that affect the human gut. Her interests include Evidence-based Medicine, Food and Nutrition, as well as Community Pharmacy, areas in which she has significant research experience. Vassiliki is also a Registered Dietitian with clinical experience.
In her current role alongside Prof. Morris Gordon, Vassiliki manages the authoring teams for many of UCLan's Cochrane Gut ongoing reviews and protocols. As part of an NIHR research grant she has published Cochrane systematic reviews on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). She also organises and helps deliver Cochrane systematic reviews workshops for clinicians and medical students, and workshops for IBD patients that aim to increase patient involvement in the group's research.
Vassiliki's previous role at the University of Central Lancashire was as a Research Assistant in Community Pharmacy alongside Prof. Paul Rutter. During that time she carried out research projects on community pharmacists' decision-making and diagnostic skills, pharmacy education and Emergency Department Pharmacy Services in collaboration with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals' Pharmacy team. Vassiliki's past experience includes projects that studied the effect of dietary fibre and prebiotics on children's satiety and appetite. She has worked in the fields of food product development, nutrigenomics and as a clinical Dietitian. She has also done consultation work as a Nutritionist on a project examining the potential of insects as a protein source for human consumption.
- MSc Nutrition and Health - specialisation Molecular Nutrition, Wageningen University 2010
- BSc Dietetics-Nutrition, Harokopio University of Athens, 2008
- UKCPA 2018 Patient Safety Award
- Cochrane Systematic Reviews
- Gut
- Probiotics
- Functional Foods
- HCPC Registered Dietitian
Vassiliki's most recent published projects are about the effect and safety of probiotics on the induction and maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis. Other publications include a qualitative study on community pharmacists' decision‐making process when making a diagnosis, teaching approaches to over-the-counter consultations and a systematic review of community pharmacies' staff diagnostic assessment and performance in patient consultations. Vassiliki has also authored a book chapter on the meaning and assessment of satiety in childhood for the European Childhood Obesity Group's Free Obesity eBook.
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- Vassiliki's current projects include Cochrane systematic reviews on probiotics and dietary and psychosocial interventions for management of functional abdominal pain in children
- interventions for the management of abdominal pain in Crohn's disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC)
- interventions for treating iron deficiency anaemia in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- antibiotics for the induction and maintenance of remission in UC
- remote care through telehealth for IBD and patient education interventions for IBD, among others
- Vassiliki worked for the NIHR Cochrane IBD Programme grant, 2017 which was awarded to Prof. Morris Gordon
- Crohn’s and Colitis Congress, 2020
- NIHR Complex Review Support Unit meeting, 2019
- United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association Conference, 2018
- International Social Pharmacy Workshop, 2018
- Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, 2018
- Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, 2017
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